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Rossman is the guy behind WAP, or wireless application protocol. Like packet switching or HTML, it doesn't sound like much, but it's vitally important to the future of the Internet. WAP lays out the rules for squeezing the best of the Net onto that Nokia (or Ericsson or Motorola) in your pocket. Rossman left his native Paris, picked up an M.B.A. at Stanford, worked on the original Apple Macintosh, started three companies and sold one to AT&T before even thinking about WAP. But his best move was attending a 1994 wireless convention in Santa Clara, Calif., where...
...Monday, at first-year registration, voter registration forms were included in the College registration packet. This was in line with new federal policy requiring colleges to make a "good faith effort" to register their students to vote. In addition, the nonpartisan Community Action Committee of the Institute of Politics (IOP) set up computers to help students request absentee ballots from their home states through www.voter.com. Though these services will not be available today for upperclass registration, the IOP does plan to table in the dining halls and remind students to send in those ballots and go to the polling stations...
...Second week in March: The "Lottery Application Packet" is distributed to all first-years. Students begin the tedious and often tense process of formalizing their "blocking groups." The College guarantees that all the students in a blocking group will be assigned to the same House...
Underneath the Faculty Club "invitation," is a packet of information about the Harvard Club of New York. Not quite as open--I'd have to interview to join that wood-paneled and leather-appointed Harvard haven. But if I didn't make it, or as is the case, don't happen to live in New York, I can donate $25 to Harvard Magazine and receive a thank you gift of glasses decorated with scenes from the Yard. Maybe I'll put them underneath my diploma framed underneath a watercolor of Johnston Gate--the next offer in my pile...
Because most viruses require little in the way of programming skills, real hackers deride the "script kiddies" and "packet monkeys" who carry around tattered copies of The Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses, instant-message each other and hang out on Internet Relay Chat, trading bits of renegade code and bragging about their exploits...